When you’re lost on a journey, do you keep driving around in circles hoping that your destination will miraculously arrive, or do you try a different route until you find it?
Or do you sit behind the wheel and judge yourself for being a bad driver because you’re on the wrong road? If you do, does it suddenly make your destination appear?
Life is no different.
Hopelessness is never the end of the road. It’s a sign that you need to take a new one.
The fact that you knew how to get yourself onto THAT road means that you have the ability and skill to change routes.
When we find ourselves in a rut, we shouldn’t remain invested in that rut hoping that someone else will come along and change it for us.
We need to change it for ourselves because we know what destination we’re in search of. No one else does.
Holding others responsible for getting to our destination assumes that they are not also searching for their destination. Or are lost in their own rut.
It’s how our journeys intersect with each other that we find companionship and comfort in others. Not in waiting for them to navigate or journey for us.
Own your life. It’s yours to own.
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Tag: hopelessness
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Invest in hope
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Humanity for sale
The ones driven by the validation of others turn themselves into victims.
The ones driven by the belief that no one cares or no one understands, turn themselves into oppressors and abusers.
But when we’re so focused on our own struggles, we fail to see the struggles that we introduce into the lives of others.
That’s why we have no shortage of people reminding others to treat everyone with kindness, but rarely treating anyone with kindness if there’s nothing in it for them.
Even our humanity has become a transaction in this capitalistic world of individual worship.
We worship our needs before we revere any principles or values that we claim to uphold.
Hence humanity’s slide into the abyss of loneliness.
When will we awaken? 😞
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Farewell, it wasn’t fun
Goodbye to a year that has defined new depths of beauty and pain, and left its mark somewhere adrift between the two, leaving an ambivalence of hope and hopelessness, where once there was certainty.
Nothing changes after midnight tonight. But the token of 2021 may give some hope, while the rest brace themselves for a continuation of the struggles of a year that most would want to forget, but everyone will always remember.
Including the heartless who believe that being right about the pandemic is more important than being compassionate about the suffering that it continues to cause.
We have a long way to climb to get ourselves out of this cess pool of humanity that we find ourselves in.
#pandemic2020 #coronavirus2020 #hope #love #gratitude #mentalhealth #compassion #hope #expectation #hopelessons #hopelessromantic #hopelessness #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selflove #selfawareness #selfrespect #mybeloved #zaidismail -
The personification of madness
Perspective, when shared, provides a sense of sanity and inclusion.
It convinces us that what we see is not a figment of our imagination, and therefore must be real.
Perception is what convinces us of our place in this world. It suggests that we belong in spaces where others see what we see.
Madness, is therefore the absence of such a shared perception.
Madness is what we feel when we search for familiarity in what appears obvious to us, or at least, what we wish others would see because of the beauty or the pain that it offers.
Not finding such familiarity isolates us in our own reality, leaving us questioning our grasp on what we once believed to be true.
Thus, the sane begin to appear insane, and the source of our sanity begins to feel like the source of our insanity.
Reality doesn’t exist. Only perception does.
The more we find others who hold a similar grasp of what we’re experiencing, what beauty we see in others, or what horror we see in the vile, the more comforted we feel about the experiences of our lives.
In the absence of such familiarity, insanity draws nearer as we question what we once were convinced to be an absolute truth, the sanctity of which we cannot even dare to think of abandoning.
It is at that moment that it feels like the world has gone mad, and that there just isn’t enough of us left to resurrect its sanity.
Perception, therefore, is what makes or breaks a life. Those who are skilled at holding on to their perception despite the reality around them conflicting with their perception, are the ones who ultimately appear insane.
It’s all relative. Until we try to understand that relativity, kindness will forever be elusive.
Photo info : A shipwreck in Cape Town that has often resonated with my perception of life. Firmly grounded in the earth, the relentless waves of madness around it, staring defiantly at the incessant storms that approach. Madness personified.
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